The Brookhaven leader., 1887-11-17
Interesting Paragraphs.

A daily illustrated paper is projected
in London. An American is one of the
syndicate.
Switzerland has recently adopted law
placing the manufacture of wines and
liquors in the hands of the government.
At Oxford. Pa, the other day, spar
row hoped upon pile of clans and was
suddenly imprisoned by one of the BIZ
valves, which closed its shell together
over the birds foot.
A lady interfered with an impatient
driver in Lynn and started stubborn,
bal1y horse attached to heavily loaded
coal wagon by giving the animal four
apples and then simply saying, Come
along"
Montana territory claims to be ready
for statehood, with plenty of property,
plenty of population. 100000 cattle,
10000 horses, 1900, 600 sheep, and
gold and silver at the rate of $26, ,000,0
year.
On the tombstone of Martha Annie
Moore, whose grave is in Old Wilmer,
Ga. is this curious epitaph: Boys. don't
shoot birds around Martha S grave. The
grave is in wild wood where game is
plenty.
A 5000 foot well is being sunk at San
Diego, Cal. 1t is hoped that supply of
water equivalent to 100000 gallons in
every twcnty-four hours will be obtained
from that and another deep well now
being sunk.
There is cotton plant at Narcoossee,
Fla, which is over five feet across the
branches and has from $50 to 400 blooms,
buds, and bolls. 1t contains cotton in
the mature article itself.
A merchant of Merrill. Wis, has
adopted a novel and successful method IF
advertising. He took his old white COW,
plastered her over from head to heels
with advertisements, and set her at large
in the streets of the town.
Dealers in apples in Liverpool and
Glasgow report the market brisk for
highly colored fruit and very dull for
that that does not have attractive color.
Apples of cherry and red color generally
''go off like hot cakes, even if the quail
ity is very poor.
A sea turtle, weighing about 1000
pounds, eight feet in length from nose to
tail, two feet through and eight feet
from fipper to fiipper, was caught by
James Buero, Sequel fisherman. while
out with nets fishing near Capitola, CAL,
few days ago. 1t is the largest sea
turtle ever caught on the Pacific coast.
One of the attractions at the me-
chanics' fair in San Francisco was Il
fountain that g,lshed forth Angelica wine
free to any one who wished to drink. In
another department of the exhibition was
a table eight feet high and fourteen feet
across, which had been made from a
single transverse section of Humboldt
county tree. ....... .
A remarkable accident recently oc-
CURED at Chapultepec. A youthful
student named Contreras was about to
cast i'll bronze a small statue representing
the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc in tor
ture, when the vessel containing the
molten metal burst and let it fall on his
feet, producing horrible burns, similar to
those inflicted on the tortured emperor.
The continuous decrease of crime in
England is very remarkable. So recently
as 1869 the prisons contained no less than
900 convicts. In July last there were
only 7,441. What is also very interesting
the education act marked the turning
point in the history of crime. Since the
passage of that act the decrease of crime
has been steady.